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Marina Locke - Yoga Teacher in Rangiora |
Marina Locke, RMT, RYT(500), CST, Doula
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" at age 15, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her meditation. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation (Zazen).
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician, doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (500 RYT) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she started teaching Power yoga (1998) after training with Rockne White at the Yoga Studio in Calgary. More recently she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment in Canada (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital). She serendipidously became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings were born. These unique professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills take her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand, since 1995.
In 2001 she completed the extensive, 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training and mentor for IYTA (Australia) Prenatal Yoga teacher training. She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Val Petrich, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Larry Schultz, Wendy Brown and many others. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies and was a Massage Therapy tutor there from 2005-2011. She studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. In 2013 she attended a 5 day training on Lomi Lomi (Hawaiian traditional bodywork) with Carrie Rowell (www.hamoea.com). She has also attended intensive workshops with Dr. David Magee, Dr. Myk Hungerford, Cassie Williams, PhD, and Thomas Myers.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 she started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Response Therapists (www.nzert.co.nz) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to coordinate volunteer services for the next 14 months, at her own expense, to help thousands of people cope with the earthquake trauma along. During this period she attended several trauma training workshops taught by accredited international teachers. Her husband's work transferred them south and now their home is in the rural Christchurch, NZ area (Fernside, Rangiora). She has incorporated many stress management/release exercises into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the Kaikoura earthquake of November 2016 and the Port Hills fires in 2017.
She is a Member of International Yoga Teachers Association/ Yoga Aotearoa NZ, Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" at age 15, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her meditation. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation (Zazen).
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician, doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (500 RYT) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she started teaching Power yoga (1998) after training with Rockne White at the Yoga Studio in Calgary. More recently she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment in Canada (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital). She serendipidously became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings were born. These unique professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills take her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand, since 1995.
In 2001 she completed the extensive, 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training and mentor for IYTA (Australia) Prenatal Yoga teacher training. She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Val Petrich, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Larry Schultz, Wendy Brown and many others. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies and was a Massage Therapy tutor there from 2005-2011. She studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. In 2013 she attended a 5 day training on Lomi Lomi (Hawaiian traditional bodywork) with Carrie Rowell (www.hamoea.com). She has also attended intensive workshops with Dr. David Magee, Dr. Myk Hungerford, Cassie Williams, PhD, and Thomas Myers.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 she started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Response Therapists (www.nzert.co.nz) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to coordinate volunteer services for the next 14 months, at her own expense, to help thousands of people cope with the earthquake trauma along. During this period she attended several trauma training workshops taught by accredited international teachers. Her husband's work transferred them south and now their home is in the rural Christchurch, NZ area (Fernside, Rangiora). She has incorporated many stress management/release exercises into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the Kaikoura earthquake of November 2016 and the Port Hills fires in 2017.
She is a Member of International Yoga Teachers Association/ Yoga Aotearoa NZ, Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta
"When the Heart has acquired stillness, it will look upon the heights and depths of knowledge and the intellect, once quieted, will be given to hear wonderful things from God." - Hesychios